SUPARNA BHADURY
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Coraopolis
PA 15108
Contact No: 734-***-****
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QA TEAM LEAD AND MANAGER
BRIEF SUMMARY
9.5 years of experience in Quality Assurance with skills in following areas of software testing:
●Leading a team of 5 QA resources and doing hands on QA testing at the same time
●Experience in leading offshore QA team (in India) for 5-15 resources
●Assigning Quarterly goals and objectives to the QA resources
●Conducting QA team meeting, QA team retrospective
●Preparing performance appraisal of the QA resources
●Preparing Test Plans, Test Designs,Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Strategy
●Ensuring successful and timely execution of the planned test cycles
●System testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing, User Interface (UI) testing, UAT testing and Performance Benchmark testing, Automation testing
●Extensive knowledge in website application testing
●Extensive knowledge in Agile Scrum and Kanban SDLCs
●Cross browser testing using spoon.net
●Defect tracking using IBM Rational Clear quest tool, JIRA, Version One
●Worked closely with the development team on critical, non-re-creatable issues, diagnose and identify steps to recreate the same
●Good knowledge in iPhone, Android application testing
●Configuration management using Rational ClearCase and VSS
●Knowledge in US Health Insurance domain
●Knowledge in US healthcare domain
●Knowledge in Finance and Insurance domain for UK
●Good knowledge of testing web application and client-server application
●Strong experience in working agile projects, waterfall models
●Worked in projects following delivery method as RUP (Rational Unified Process)
●Leading a team of 10 testers
●Training/ mentoring subordinates and customers on QA best practices
●3 years of hands on experience in Unisys mainframe (A-series) systems
●Understanding of Unisys mainframe modeling language LINC
●Experience in JAVA and VB.NET black box testing
●Good experience in managing QA activities at offshore using Onsite-Offshore model
●Work on client locations for new enhancements
●Responsible for Configuration Management and coordinating the activities with offshore and onsite/customer team members
●Provide accurate Weekly and Monthly status to offshore projects and Customer
●Review deliverables from offshore team and deliver to Onsite
●Train the QA team and developers on the product
●Timely coordination with the development team and the product support team for test environment creation.
●Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
●Gold Certificate winner from Keane for excellent work in Keane India (2008)
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Testing and Configuration Management Tools:
Web Service Testing:
Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA, Version One, Quality Center (ALM), VSS
SOAP UI, XML
Automation Tools
Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, Junit, QTP/UFT
Databases / DB Tools:
MS SQL Server
Desktop Tools:
MS Office
Operating Systems:
Windows XP(32 BIT), Win Vista (32 and 64 bit), Win 7 (32 and 64 bit), Apple MAC,
Scripting Languages:
Visual Basic scripting, Java
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TRACKABOUT (08/2012-TILL DATE)
Pittsburgh, USA
Oil & Gas Industry-Real Time Asset Tracking
QA Team Lead
ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :
●Working as a Team Lead/Point of contact for the QA team.
●Responsible for making decisions in day to day QA activities.
●Responsible for reporting to higher management in case QA team is facing any issues
●Providing quarterly Goals and Objectives to the QA resources.
●Performance appraisal of QA resources.
●Managing a team of 5 QA resources.
●Apart from the team lead responsibilities worked as an active QA team member with the below mentioned roles.
●Taken initiative to automate the entire regression suite using Selenium tool that QA team used to execute manually before.
●Automation testing using Selenium
●Also leading offshore QA team in India
●QA team point of contact for agile scrum and retrospectives
●Establishing QMS (Quality Management System) policies in the company
●Participating in risk mitigation meeting and creating software verification test plan/ strategy
●Participating in company audits for QMS policies
●Introduced QMS policies in the organization following the FDA rules and regulations
TRACKABOUT (07/2011-07/2012)
Pittsburgh, USA
Gas Industry-Real Time Asset Tracking
QA Analyst
ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :
●Independently working in a Test Driven Development/ Agile environment.
●Working in backlogs/enhancements in different sprints.
●Writing acceptance test (ATs) for the test steps and expected results.
●Enhancement or Backlog is broken down after detailed discussion with the developers.
●Identifying the test scenarios and regression scenarios for backlogs.
●Defect Tracking using Version one tool
●Providing creative feedback in agile retrospective meeting to identify and solve issues in each sprint.
●Integration testing between different interfaces through web services and xml.
●Regression Testing in different modules of the application
●Actively participated in growing the existing regression test suite.
●Verifying TrackAbout application in different handheld devices like Motorola 3090, MC075, Psion, Denso and Honeywell.
●Good Knowledge in device certification.
●Working side-by-side with the product managers, business analysts and developers throughout the software development lifecycle.
Celerity (01/2011– 06/2011)
Pittsburgh, USA
Client : Highmark Bluecross Blueshield (Health Insurance)
Small Group Sales Project
QA Analyst
ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :
●Independently detailing test cases, executing and completing test plans.
●Constructing test sets based on the functional requirements.
● Ensuring all test cases are updated with test results as they are executed.
●Adhering to the quality procedures in place.
●Understanding working in typical Waterfall and Agile environments.
●Communicating and negotiating with development where appropriate to resolve issues found during testing.
●Following all release processes and protocols.
●Configuring the test environment required to test the functional areas
●Experience testing 3-tier web applications
●Experience testing applications that employ Flex, Ajax, or other asynchronous web technologies
●Understanding of different types of software testing
●Working closely with the Business Analyst team and verifying the product according to the SMEs’ (Subject matter expert) expectation.
Bodymedia Inc. (10/2009– 12/2010)
Pittsburgh, USA
Medical Device related Software (Healthcare)
SenseWear, BlueBerry, BodyBugg, Go Wear Fit
Senior test engineer
ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :
●Testing of the software interfacing medical devices
●Testing of firmware quality implemented in the medical devices
●iphone (3G, 3GS, 4) and itouch(2nd Gen and 3rd Gen ), Android phones application testing
●Understand and Analyze business requirements
●Estimate testing effort for the new enhancements
●Prepare Project Plan using MPP
●Plan the execution of the enhancements and its impacts
●Create and execute detailed test plans
●Prepare test data, and manual tests. Approve results documentation and track systems updates
●Supervise development of SQL-queries/procedures for database and backend testing
●Solid web testing and client server architecture experience
●Use JIRA as Defect Management System for reporting and tracking issues, and providing updates on resolved issues
●Analyze the quality of the software and help troubleshooting the issues
●Assign task to the team members and track it to closure
●Develop Verification and/or Validation Plans to manage the execution of testing in relation to Design and Development Plans and Schedules
●Develop Verification and/or Validation Procedures to manage the execution of testing in relation to Plans. Perform black box testing, detailed functionality testing and regression testing.
●Execute Verification/Validation Test Cases related to Procedures
●Develop Verification/Validation Reports and Records to document test results and activities
●Organize Verification/Validation document reviews to obtain approval on all documents before being placed into the Design History File
●Document and Track defects as a result of testing to closure.
●Automating test scripts using QTP
Keane Inc./NTT Data (10/2005– 4/2009)
Client - Unisys,UK (2005-2009)
UK Mortgage (Finance and Insurance)
UFSS (Unisys Financial Service System)
Senior Software Engineer
ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES :
●Understand and Analyze business requirements
●Estimate testing effort for the new enhancements
●Prepare Project Plan using MPP
●Plan the execution of the enhancements and its impacts
●Utilizing Microsoft VSS to store documents and controlling the versioning of the same
●Create and execute detailed test plans
●Configure test environment, Prepare test data, schedule automated/manual tests. Approve results documentation and track systems updates
●Supervise development of SQL-queries/procedures for database and backend testing
●Use Clear Quest as Defect Management System for reporting and tracking issues, and providing updates on resolved issues
●Schedule and run batches on Unisys mainframe (A-Series)
●Develop and test LINC reports in EAE developer
●Analyze the performance of the system and help troubleshooting the performance issues
●Performance, regression, user interface, user acceptance testing, system testing on Unisys mainframe (A Series) and windows environment
●Perform benchmark testing for each release
●Status reporting to Keane onsite and customer in form of DSR,WSR and MSR
●Assign task to the team members and track it to closure
Education
Sl. No.
Degree
Branch
1
B.Tech degree
Computer Science and Engineering